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NBC5 has reached out to authorities and the FBI. We have yet to receive any responses.

The FBI continues to investigate a Shelburne apartment where the poison ricin was found.

The Vermont Department of Health said one resident of the Wake Robbin retirement community is being treated at UVM Medical Center, but not for ricin poisoning.

Investigators are taking all precautions to ensure this person was not in contact with the poison.

The FBI is now the investigating agency on this case.

“The FBI responded to the scene at a retirement community in Shelburne, Vermont. We are working with our federal, state and local partners and we are taking all necessary steps to ensure this incident is resolved safely,” said Peter Fitzgerald, chief division counsel and media representative for the FBI Albany Division in a statement.

“It’s theoretically labeled a weapon of mass destruction. It would be similar to if we found anthrax,” Vermont Department of Health Commissioner Mark Levine said.

Hazmat crews were called to the community Tuesday afternoon around 1:30 p.m. The apartment was carefully inspected and tested for ricin.

“If you have enough to make someone sick theoretically you could have enough to make them really suffer badly and end up in an ICU or perhaps not survive,” Levine said.

Ricin is a derived from the castor bean. It can easily be found online, which makes it hard to track. But making ricin is difficult and dangerous.

There is no indication yet as to why ricin was in the apartment or what its intended use was.

“The facility has had a lot of attention to it, with the hazmat teams and others. So there should be nothing there that would have the substance that people would come in contact with. So we don’t believe that there is any danger to the public at large,” Levine said.